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By Julie Turner-Crawford
ecently, I took a drive along a rural road I had not traveled in what seemed like an eternity. As I drove, I started to remember road trips taken along the route when I took was a kid. There was the dirt road we took that went back to the farm where we bought several market hogs to show when I was a youngster. I remember going to the farm to get those hogs because the farmer was the first person I ever wrote a check to. It was $250 for two barrows; pretty big money back then for a 14-year-old. The name and exterior of the old convenience store on the other side of the you-have-to-know-where-it— Continued on Next Page
Mississippi Brownies
BULL SALE
Julie Turner-Crawford is a native of Dallas County, Mo., where she grew up on her family’s farm. She is a graduate of Missouri State University. To contact Julie, call 1-866532-1960 or by email at editor@ozarksfn.com.
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For the Brownies: • 1/3 C unsweetened cocoa powder • 1/2 C oil (vegetable or canola oil) • 1/2 C butter, softened • 2 C granulated sugar • 4 large eggs
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-by-13 pan with non-stick cooking spray. In a large mixing bowl, pour oil over cocoa powder and mix. Add softened butter and mix until smooth. Add sugar and mix for 1 minute. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing after each addition. Add vanilla and mix. Add flour and salt and stir to combine. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Remove brownies from the oven and sprinkle the marshmallows evenly on top. Return to the oven for 2to 3 minutes or until the marshmallows are puffed. Remove from oven and allow them to cool completely. Once brownies are cool, make the frosting. For the Frosting: For the frosting: Add melted butter, cocoa powdered, evaporated milk, • 1/2 C butter, melted • 1/3 C unsweetened cocoa powder vanilla, and 2 C powdered sugar to a mixing bowl and beat with electric beaters • 1/3 C evaporated milk until smooth. Add more powdered sugar, • 1 tsp vanilla extract a cup at a time, mixing well, until you • 3 to 3 1/2 C powdered sugar reach your desired frosting consistency. Spread frosting over the cooled brownies and cut into squares.
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